STAND. COM. REP. NO. 680

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 871

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 871, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to expand participation in school activities by:

 

     (1)  Requiring the Department of Education and the Board of Education to develop policies and procedures allowing home-schooled students to participate on an equal basis in extracurricular activities offered at the public school that the home-schooled students would otherwise be required to attend; and

 

     (2)  Requiring the Department of Education to report its findings, including the status of developing the policies and procedures for home-schooled students, to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session of 2012.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from Kim Coco Iwamoto, Esq., Member, Board of Education.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from Neal Takamori, President, Athletic Directors and Coaches Association of Hawaii; Hawaii Student Activities Association; and three individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that home-schooled students can benefit substantially from extracurricular school activities in the same manner as their public school counterparts.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion on this measure; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 871, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 871, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair